I follow some of the United Fanzine accounts and someone noted that yesterday was exactly a year since Luke Shaw last played for the club - though he was fit anough to play for Engerland in the Euro's last summer - and in that time he has picked up £8.5 million in wages. And then theres Phil Jones and his nine years of not playing - in the middle of which he was given a new contract - on £120,000 a week.
A new banner for the Stretford End to replace the 'How many years since City won the league?' sign, just keep a running total of Phil Jones' wages vs minutes played.
Well that match was a bit bonkers! This one will hopefully be equally as mad
Bloody hell, Liverpool.
34% possession, 2 shots on target and 2-0 up, happy days! Ruthless efficiency trumps possession football…
Boring, Boring Liverpool!
Only kidding, that's how you win stuff.
Solid performance after looking shaky at the back v Villa and Everton. And Wolves to an extent. Probably a massive boost to see Haaland out and only have to deal with the endless dead ends Doku and Savinho run into. There’s a player in each of them for sure, if Pep still has the desire. Foden though, what’s happened?
Doku ran Trent ragged all game, but no end product at all! City were so blunt in attack, all that possession but it looked so easy to keep them out…
Doku reminds me of Sterling at that age, all the rest of the tricks, plenty of pace, with no end product. Looks like a rabbit in the headlights when it comes to the final ball
Citeh look completely toothless without robocop up front. Foden seems to be doing a Rashford. Going from unplayable one season to being easily dealt with the next.
Shaun Wright-Phillips was the OG of pacy wing play with no end product. In fact he only ever seemed to look up once he'd run past the goal line and out of play!
Saw a comment on the Athletic: ‘Doku is Adama Traore without the biceps’ 😀
I see Clever Jim's latest wheeze is to close the staff canteen
Just in case you were worried though - players will still get free food! You wouldn't want Casemiro having to pay for his pie and mash out of his own pocket.
Wow - how has Jim got to where he is?
He seems incredibly bad at this running a business lark
Wow - how has Jim got to where he is?
By screwing the little people, the way he has performed at UTD just lays bare how corrupt the system is in enabling the wealthy to profit from misery, and how extreme it is rigged in their favour. There have been multiple studies that show opportunity and luck is the biggest differentiator in success and failure, it has **** all to do with hard work and "brilliance".
But is Luke Shaw now going to have to pay for his own pies?
Gonna watch United v United as a way to forget about Trump, Musk and the world's other crap.
Gonna watch United v United as a way to forget about Trump, Musk and the world's other crap.
Good choice!
RM.
Brilliant result for Leeds after a very nervy half hour in the first half and Meslier pushing the ball into his own net. Thought we were lucky to get to half time only 1-0 down, but 3 fabulous goals from Firpo, Tanaka and a wonderful shot from Piroe to make it 3-1. A gap of 5 points to the Blades and 7 to Burnley gives us a strong position to get automatic promotion. It would help my nerves if we didn't keep going down 1-0 before we start playing!
#MOT / #ALAW
I said to my mates on What’s App that we’d win 3-1 (just after we went one down). I don’t think I actually believed it, but I had a hunch. We just seem way too strong right now.
But is Luke Shaw now going to have to pay for his own pies?
If that's the case the Utd financial crisis will be over by easter & they'll all be wearing suits of gold.
Wow - how has Jim got to where he is?
I’d always assumed he was some sort of Dyson type boffin but he is just someone who got lucky in Private Equity and that’s not necessarily proof of being a great entrepreneur, more just cut costs and then punt it on.
Brilliant result for Leeds
A Leeds supporting mate drunkenly posted on FB last night that "Yorkshire was turning white again" and has woken up to a lot of "I didn't know you were a racist" type responses 🤣
Is everyone up to speed on what to call ‘Spurs’?
Unsurprisingly they’ve been properly taking the piss on five live tonight. For a team presently in 13th, they don’t half have a high opinion of themselves
You'd think they'd want to drop the Spurs part of the name now it's an adjective.
Everyone seems to want to make sure City finish top three in our worst season for a decade.
It felt like there was an opportunity there to get 3 points at Old Trafford, instead we managed to get none. It definitely feels like the season is over now, can't see us catching wolves
It felt like there was an opportunity there to get 3 points at Old Trafford, instead we managed to get none. It definitely feels like the season is over now, can't see us catching wolves
As soon as I saw we'd scored first I knew it was over....
Just musing to myself wondering if Trump will allow Russia a wild card into the US world cup. Hopefully countries will boycott it.
If you can’t come to Old Trafford and pick up an easy 3 points against this shambles of a United squad, you really are in trouble
Just musing to myself wondering if Trump will allow Russia a wild card into the US world cup.
Well, Fifa are as corrupt as he is, so no doubt there is the opportunity for a bung there.
Felt for Ipswich last night, but I can't see the bottom 3 changing between now and the end of the season.
Is everyone up to speed on what to call ‘Spurs’?
Unsurprisingly they’ve been properly taking the piss on five live tonight. For a team presently in 13th, they don’t half have a high opinion of themselves
Years back an eccentric lad at work sent out an email asking for everyone to call him David, rather than the usual Dave. This was met with 'okay Dave'.
If you can’t come to Old Trafford and pick up an easy 3 points against this shambles of a United squad, you really are in trouble
We've thrown away more points from winning positions than any other team in the league. I always thought it would be a one season adventure. We've a few good players I suspect we will lose if we go down, possibly the manager as well, so coming back up would be a struggle.
That said, if we could manage to hang on to some of those leads we could put a run together, but matches and "easier" games are running out.
It felt like there was an opportunity there to get 3 points at Old Trafford, instead we managed to get none. It definitely feels like the season is over now, can't see us catching wolves
Listening to the Football Weekly podcast they made the point that at least your mob are giving it a go, unlike Leicester and Southampton who seem to have given up and are going through the motions. Unfortunately and predictably all the games you won last season with the odd goal in 5 or 7 are going against this. You should walk through the champo next season though, if you keep hold of your squad.
As a bitter Leeds fan I think it's very amusing seeing the bottom three as it is although it doesn't bode well if we go up! Saying that, as pointed out on FW, Leicester and Southampton still have a large amount of players that were not good enough for the prem last time and sold some of the ones that were so what did they expect?
This afternoon should be interesting. Brighton v Newcastle should be a belter
I suppose I'll have to endure another 90 minutes of swearing at the telly later. When they were on about it on Five Live earlier I forget that we are actually defending the trophy. We've been so rubbish for the last few seasons its easy to forget we actually won it last year and got to the final the year before. God only knows how! It wasn't just a lucky draw either. Could we fluke it again this year? Not a chance! How awful we are has hit new levels this season.
Two cracking results today.
Yep, be good to see Brighton or Bournemouth win it. Or Fulham. All seem pretty well clubs and play decent football.
We were as appalling as I thought we’d be. We looked considerably better once he’d taken a few of the overpaid duds off and put the kids on instead. I don’t know why he doesn’t just play the under 21’s squad instead of these donkeys
Rasmus Hojland is now eclipsing Antony as the worst buy in football history. 65 million for an alleged striker who has started pretty much every game but hasn’t scored in nearly 3 months, has only 2 EPL goals and no assists all season and has had less shots on goal than our defenders. He’s absolutely stealing a living! He wouldn’t get into my local pub side but starts every game as we haven’t got anyone else. He makes Darwin Nunez look like Messi
He’s poor, works hard I suppose but for the money you’d want better. There were rumours last season about United players not passing to him as they’d seen how poor he was in training.
Funny Rooney calling Amorim naive - when he’s critical of your management, you know times are hard.
Well that was a great weekend of football. Shrewsbury town managed to
- equal the record for the fastest red card (13 sec).
- lose 3-1
- drop to the bottom of the table, now 8 points from safety.
At least Wrexham didn't win! 😉
Anyone else think the red was a bit harsh? I mean it's arguable, but you've seen people get away with much worse. Sergio Ramos wouldn't even be booked for that
Yeah, looks a bit harsh. Not as harsh as Anthony Gordon’s though!
I'm struggling to see why Gordon didn't deserve a straight red for deliberately hitting someone on the head with both hands.
Gordon definitely deserved a red, not so much for violent conduct, as it was too faff-arse to be described as that, but just for being a dick!
It was handbags! He’ll miss the carabao cup final as a result. Conspiracy theorist in me wonders if he’s not too bothered, being a die hard red?
Can't work out how Liverpool aren't a few goals down at this point. PSG are battering them.
